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copied!<p>This has been addressed with the release of Java 7. The<a href="http://download.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/" rel="nofollow">Java 7 Docs</a> contain a <a href="http://docs.oracle.com/javase/specs/index.html" rel="nofollow">Specifications</a> sidebar link (see it?) which links to two new PDFs (the <a href="http://docs.oracle.com/javase/specs/jls/se7/jls7.pdf" rel="nofollow">JLS</a> and <a href="http://docs.oracle.com/javase/specs/jvms/se7/jvms7.pdf" rel="nofollow">JVMS</a>).</p> <p>As @Andrey Loskutov points out in a <a href="http://www.jroller.com/andyl/entry/updated_jvm_specs_for_java" rel="nofollow">blog post</a> linked from a comment on this question, the <a href="http://download.oracle.com/otndocs/jcp/java_se-7-final-eval-spec/index.html" rel="nofollow">JSR-000336 Java SE 7 Release Contents Final Release Specification</a> contains an annex which has various versions of those artifacts and some surrounding verbiage, including the following text:</p> <blockquote> <p>The last self-contained specification of the Java Virtual Machine was the Second Edition in 1999. It was affected in 2004 by JSRs for Java SE 5.0. For example, JSR 14 deeply revised the ClassFile chapter. No integrated document was published, but nevertheless the specification of the Java Virtual Machine was officially updated in 2004. Changes between 1999 and 2004 were identified in individual chapters at the time, and it is no longer possible to identify changes made specifically for Java SE 5.0.</p> <p>The 2004 specification was then affected in 2006 by JSRs for Java SE 6. For example, JSR 202 deeply revised the Linking chapter. Again, no integrated document was published, but nevertheless the specification of the Java Virtual Machine was officially updated in 2006. Again, changes between 2004 and 2006 were identified in individual chapters at the time, and it is no longer possible to identify changes made specifically for Java SE 6. </p> </blockquote> <p>Why Sun/Oracle makes a research project out of finding their documentation is a matter for a different forum. Suffice to say, however, that their scattered approach to documentation combined with the fact that nothing links to anything else makes dealing with Java much harder than it should be.</p>

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